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Brewer Lane Ventures (BLV), a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on investing in the future of financial services, has appointed Douglas Kim as operating partner. David Castellani, formerly operating principal at Brewer Lane Ventures, has also been promoted to operating partner.
Kim will partner with portfolio company founders to provide strategic guidance and execution expertise as they scale their businesses.
Kim’s entrepreneurial experience includes the founding of Pega Cloud – the $250 million enterprise SaaS business of Pegasystems Inc (NASDAQ: PEGA), as well as Talksender, a rich media email marketing company. Kim was also a founding executive at NovaSoft, a
Meati Foods, the creator of Eat Meati alternative whole-food proteins made from mushroom root, has raised $150 million in a Series C investment round led by Revolution growth.
Existing and new investors, including Grosvenor Food & AgTech, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Wellington Management, and Cultivate Next, Chipotle Mexican Grill’s new venture fund which includes Meati Foods in its first cohort of investments.
The funding will be used to help the company expand production and the accessibility of its products as its aims to become the US market share leader in plant-based ‘meat’ by 2025. The company’s
KKR has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in apexanalytix (apex), a provider of supply chain risk management software and services. Following the purchase, apex’s largest prior shareholder, Carousel Capital (Carousel), a private investment firm that invests in companies located in the Southeastern United States, continues to hold a significant minority stake in the Company alongside KKR.
G2 Venture Partners, a venture capital firm focused on emerging technologies driving sustainable transformation across traditional industries, has promoted Jake Tauscher to partner.
Tauscher first worked with the G2 team in 2019 as an intern, then joined full-time as an Investor in 2020. He is a board observer at G2 portfolio companies Light Guide Systems, AiDash, and Nikola Labs and helps lead the firm’s work on topics including artificial intelligence and machine learning, carbon markets, electrification, and industrial decarbonisation.
Prior to joining G2, Tauscher invested in large industrial companies at Advent International, working in diverse sectors including water, distribution, manufacturing,
European buyout house BC Partners is said to be closing in on a deal to acquire Italian paper manufacturer Fedrigoni at a €3 billion valuation from Bain Capital, with BC Partners set to reinvest in the company through its latest fund, according to report by Reuters.
Bain Capital originally invested €600 million in the company, which produces papers for packaging, graphics, brand protection and art, as well as self-adhesive papers and films for clients in the visual communication and other tailor-made sectors, back in 2018.
BC Partners reportedly fell short it the €8.5 billion goal for set its new flagship
Multistratgey asset manager Ardian’s latest secondary fund has attracted capital commitments of around $10 billion so far, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
The report cites unnamed sources as confirming that the fund, Ardian Secondaries Fund IX, which will focus on acquiring secondhand stakes in private equity funds, is planning to hold a first close in early October of this year and has a target size of $15 billion.
The total amassed so far is reported to include significant co-investment capital which will be invested alongside the Ardian fund.
The Ardian Secondaries team closed a total of
Edelman has launched Edelman Smithfield, a financial communications boutique that specialises in financial markets and strategic situations, serving clients in the United States, EMEA, Asia and beyond.
TPT Retirement Solutions, a UK-based workplace pension scheme, is to make a c£75 million impact investment through its defined contribution (DC) Master Trust default fund.
Members of TPT’s DC default investment strategy, whose investments are advised by AllianceBernstein, will over the long-term, increasingly see their pensions allocated to investments nurturing positive societal impacts and tackling global social and environmental problems, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
While seeking investment opportunities offering high growth potential to enhance returns, the fund will increase exposure to investments attaining strong positive impacts like social housing, green infrastructure, and renewable energy. The
The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System (PennSERS) has made an additional commitment of up to $125 million to two private equity funds managed by Sentinel Capital Partners, according to a report by Pension & Investments.
The report cites an email from spokeswoman Pamela Hill as confirming that an allocation of up to $100 million to middle-market fund Sentinel Capital Partners VII has been approved by the £33.9 billion pension fund’s board with and additional $25 million allocated to lower middle-market fund Sentinel Junior Capital II.
PennSERS has a target PE allocation of 12% with its actual allocation standing at 13% as of 31 March, 2022.
Red Mountain Capital Partners (Red Mountain) has launched Red Mountain Capital Advisors (RMCA) and Red Mountain Securities (RMS), an investment banking platform focused exclusively on providing advisory services for middle market public and private companies and their owners.
RMCA and RMS represent the evolution of Red Mountain from an investment management firm that invested in middle market and small cap public and private companies, adding value by offering constructive advice to their management teams and boards, to an investment banking advisory firm with an owner’s perspective and an emphasis on value creation.
RMCA is led by Founding Partners Chris Teets,
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